NXS-GRX-BGD · Southern Asia · Regions

Khulna

First-level unit, Bangladesh: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-BGD-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BGD / BDStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
16,564,118
people (GHSL 2025)
21,542 km²
area
9.5%
of Bangladesh
10
units inside
01Map

Inside Khulna

The 10 ADM2 units of Khulna.

FIG 1 · 10 units inside Khulna
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

16,564,118

9.5% of Bangladesh.

People · WorldPop 2025

18,005,489

+9% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

21,542 km²

769 people per km².

Code

BD-D

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

10,271,335

people on land at or below 10 m, 62.0% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Khulna in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2022-12-31

16,132,492

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2022-12-31

7%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

14%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

10 units inside Khulna

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Bagerhat–1,541,3181,692,4353,655.754229.3%1,515,312
Chuadanga–1,235,7291,300,7751,167.911,0587.4%34,882
Jessore–3,046,4943,261,8162,590.61,17618.3%2,364,670
Jhenaidah–1,826,0272,034,6261,961.0693111%585,927
Khulna–2,378,1912,767,5763,634.0665414.3%2,329,890
Kushtia–2,027,2762,196,8741,619.111,25212.2%149,115
Magura–987,8091,072,0171,050.719405.9%711,196
Meherpur–716,587705,321723.629904.3%0
Narail–803,325887,922998.088054.8%767,782
Satkhira–2,049,1492,247,1313,399.9660312.3%2,004,656
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
287.3 H3 cells
Ports
1 H3 cells
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
309 H3 cells
Railways
408.5 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
741.7 H3 cells
06Risk

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Khulna publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Bangladesh.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGD ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2015
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGD ADM2, source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGD ADM3, source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM4 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BGD ADM4, source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Countries
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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